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From Florella Brown Adair to Samuel Lyle Adair and Emma Adair
[page 1]
South Salem April 8, (1861)
Dear Husband & Daughter
After sealing up my last letter to you, I started in company with Mr[.] Wallace out on a [beging?] trip for the suffering in Osawatomie, we first met Mr[.] Fullerton who gave one dollar & encouraged us to go on, next called to a cousin of Mr[.] Wallace[�]s where I received one, & on we went meeting in turn frowns & favors from house to house[.] some said, they hope these times in Kansas would [MS. illegible] the people, to lay up some thing for them selves, build [cribs?] & pens & lay away a part of their corn, for just such times, we took a [MS. illegible]of five or six miles & got back to dinner & only got [$]3,25. We were out in a shower & mud most of the time. After dinner Martha & I again went in the town, was received kindly but almost everyone we called upon had given all they could, or had it not by then, it rained & was terable

This letter was written on April 8, 9, and 10, 1861 by Florella Brown Adair in South Salem, to her husband Samuel Lyle Adair and daughter Emma Adair. Florella writes that she continues to have difficulty collecting money for Kansas, and declares “I hope there will be not one cent given to those who will not work, as hard as I have to get the little I have for their benefit.”

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From Florella Brown Adair to Samuel Lyle Adair and Emma Adair
[page 1]
South Salem April 8, (1861)
Dear Husband & Daughter
After sealing up my last letter to you, I started in company with Mr[.] Wallace out on a [beging?] trip for the suffering in Osawatomie, we first met Mr[.] Fullerton who gave one dollar & encouraged us to go on, next called to a cousin of Mr[.] Wallace[�]s where I received one, & on we went meeting in turn frowns & favors from house to house[.] some said, they hope these times in Kansas would [MS. illegible] the people, to lay up some thing for them selves, build [cribs?] & pens & lay away a part of their corn, for just such times, we took a [MS. illegible]of five or six miles & got back to dinner & only got [$]3,25. We were out in a shower & mud most of the time. After dinner Martha & I again went in the town, was received kindly but almost everyone we called upon had given all they could, or had it not by then, it rained & was terable